Description
Book SynopsisHagenloh's vivid and monumental account is the first to show how Stalin's peculiar brand of policing-in which criminals, juvenile delinquents, and other marginalized population groups were seen increasingly as threats to the political and social order-supplied the core mechanism of the Great Terror.
Trade ReviewThe near torrent of works attempting to reconstruct and rectify the historical record of the Stalin era continues, and this one is a worthy example. -- Robert Legvold Foreign Affairs 2009 Hagenloh has written an important book on Soviet policing between Stalin's rise to power and the advent of WW II. It is a fresh, fascinating study. Choice 2009 A very serious contribution to the field. -- Paul Monk Australian Literary Review 2009 Hagenloh's insightful and provocative examination of the Soviet police-civil ( militsiia) and security (political)-fills a glaring gap in our understanding of the Stalin era... Such a study is long overdue. -- William J. Chase Russian Review 2010 This is a book that transcends disciplinary boundaries and deserves to be widely read by scholars of criminal justice. -- Matthew Light Law and Politics Book Review 2010 This is an important book, a first-class example of the current scholarship emerging from the detailed use of opened Russian archives of the Stalin era and a fascinating analysis of its machinery of policing and control. -- Mark Galeotti Europe-Asia Studies 2010 This is an excellent book, and like all good books its assertions (and assertiveness) will spark controversy. -- J. Arch Getty Slavic Review 2010 An impressive study. -- Melanie Ilic Revolutionary Russia 2010 An impressively researched and analytically ambitious monograph on the history of Stalinist policing. -- David Priestland American Historical Review 2010 Hagenloh's sophisticated and well-researched work is valuable reading. -- Alexander Hill Journal of World History 2011
Table of ContentsList of Tables
Acknowledgments
A Note on Translation
Glossary
Introduction: Soviet Policing, Social Categories, and the Great Terror
1. Prerevolutionary Policing, Revolutionary Events, and the New Economic Policy
2. "Chekist in Essence, Chekist in Spirit": The Soviet Police and the Stalin Revolution
3. The New Order, 1932–1934
4. The Police and the "Victory of Socialism," 1934–1936
5. The Stalinist Police
6. Nikolai Ezhov and the Mass Operations, 1937–1938
7. Policing after the Mass Operations, 1938–1941
Conclusion
A Note on Sources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
